Sort by keys inside json arrays

CHANGES.md

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ We adhere to the [keepachangelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) format (
 ## [Unreleased]
 ### Changes
 * **POTENTIALLY BREAKING** Bump bytecode from Java 8 to 11 ([#1530](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/pull/1530) part 2 of [#1337](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/issues/1337))
+* **POTENTIALLY BREAKING** `sortByKeys` for JSON formatting now takes into account objects inside arrays ([#1546](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/pull/1546))
 
 ## [2.34.0] - 2023-01-26
 ### Added

lib/src/gson/java/com/diffplug/spotless/glue/gson/GsonFormatterFunc.java

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 import com.google.gson.Gson;
 import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
+import com.google.gson.JsonArray;
 import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
 import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter;
@@ -57,8 +58,8 @@ public String apply(String inputString) {
 			if (jsonElement == null) {
 				throw new AssertionError(FAILED_TO_PARSE_ERROR_MESSAGE);
 			}
-			if (gsonConfig.isSortByKeys() && jsonElement.isJsonObject()) {
-				jsonElement = sortByKeys(jsonElement.getAsJsonObject());
+			if (gsonConfig.isSortByKeys()) {
+				jsonElement = sortByKeys(jsonElement);
 			}
 			try (StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter()) {
 				JsonWriter jsonWriter = new JsonWriter(stringWriter);
@@ -72,19 +73,36 @@ public String apply(String inputString) {
 		return result;
 	}
 
+	private JsonElement sortByKeys(JsonElement jsonElement) {
+		if (jsonElement.isJsonArray()) {
+			return sortByKeys(jsonElement.getAsJsonArray());
+		} else if (jsonElement.isJsonObject()) {
+			return sortByKeys(jsonElement.getAsJsonObject());
+		} else {
+			return jsonElement;
+		}
+	}
+
 	private JsonElement sortByKeys(JsonObject jsonObject) {
 		JsonObject result = new JsonObject();
 		jsonObject.keySet().stream().sorted()
 				.forEach(key -> {
-					JsonElement element = jsonObject.get(key);
-					if (element.isJsonObject()) {
-						element = sortByKeys(element.getAsJsonObject());
-					}
-					result.add(key, element);
+					JsonElement sorted = sortByKeys(jsonObject.get(key));
+					result.add(key, sorted);
 				});
 		return result;
 	}
 
+	private JsonElement sortByKeys(JsonArray jsonArray) {
+		var result = new JsonArray();
+		for (JsonElement element : jsonArray) {
+			JsonElement sorted = sortByKeys(element);
+			result.add(sorted);
+		}
+
+		return result;
+	}
+
 	private String generateIndent(int indentSpaces) {
 		return String.join("", Collections.nCopies(indentSpaces, " "));
 	}

plugin-gradle/CHANGES.md

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 We adhere to the [keepachangelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) format (starting after version `3.27.0`).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+### Changes
+* **POTENTIALLY BREAKING** `sortByKeys` for JSON formatting now takes into account objects inside arrays ([#1546](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/pull/1546))
 
 ## [6.14.0] - 2023-01-26
 ### Added

plugin-maven/CHANGES.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ We adhere to the [keepachangelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) format (
 ## [Unreleased]
 ### Added
 * A synthesis log with the number of considered files is added after each formatter execution ([#1507](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/pull/1507))
+### Changes
+* **POTENTIALLY BREAKING** `sortByKeys` for JSON formatting now takes into account objects inside arrays ([#1546](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/pull/1546))
 * Any commit of the Spotless maven plugin now available via JitPack ([#1547](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/pull/1547))
 
 ## [2.31.0] - 2023-01-26

testlib/src/main/resources/json/sortByKeysAfter.json

@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@
         2,
         1
     ],
+    "_objectsInArraysAreSorted": [
+        {
+            "a": 1,
+            "b": 2
+        }
+    ],
     "a": 3,
     "c": 4,
     "x": 5,

testlib/src/main/resources/json/sortByKeysAfterDisabled.json

@@ -15,5 +15,11 @@
         3,
         2,
         1
+    ],
+    "_objectsInArraysAreSorted": [
+        {
+            "b": 2,
+            "a": 1
+        }
     ]
 }

testlib/src/main/resources/json/sortByKeysAfterDisabled_Simple.json

@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
         "x": 5,
         "X": 2
     },
+    "_objectsInArraysAreSorted": [{
+        "a": 1,
+        "b": 2
+    }],
     "_arraysNotSorted": [
         3,
         2,

testlib/src/main/resources/json/sortByKeysAfter_Jackson.json

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
   "A": 1,
   "X": 2,
   "_arraysNotSorted": [ 3, 2, 1 ],
+  "_objectsInArraysAreSorted": [ {
+    "a": 1,
+    "b": 2
+  } ],
   "a": 3,
   "c": 4,
   "x": 5,

testlib/src/main/resources/json/sortByKeysAfter_Jackson_spaceAfterKeySeparator.json

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
   "A": 1,
   "X": 2,
   "_arraysNotSorted": [ 3, 2, 1 ],
+  "_objectsInArraysAreSorted": [ {
+    "a": 1,
+    "b": 2
+  } ],
   "a": 3,
   "c": 4,
   "x": 5,

testlib/src/main/resources/json/sortByKeysBefore.json

@@ -15,5 +15,11 @@
         3,
         2,
         1
+    ],
+    "_objectsInArraysAreSorted": [
+        {
+            "b": 2,
+            "a": 1
+        }
     ]
 }